So, would you advocate we make no player changes in the summer and hopefully just re-loan the existing squad players and go with the exact same people? I find it easy to imagine it going better, it wasn’t long ago we were outplayed at the Riverside, there is always room to improve, but like i said, attempting to do so can also make things worse, you just never know till you try, it doesn’t stop people and clubs trying though.
Good point, these are the U 15’s now. Played at Redcar the other night against Blackburn. Got beat 2-1 but there are a couple of England internationals in that Boro group. Ably guided by Grant. Futures bright
I agree (mostly), Whatever anyone thinks of Woody, only those closely working with him will know what he brings to the table. I think it was not only a bold decision bringing him back, but pairing him with Carrick was too. Woody is clearly well thought of by the hierarchy, and like I say, maybe just maybe he is back out of some sense of honour, who knows
as I do think he was always going to struggle with what he had to coach.
Leave the club you supported as a boy, town you lived in whole life, owned a season ticket and whole family supported, to win a League Cup with a fellow mid-table side, and miss the chance to win the FA Cup with your own club? Well, I guess football means different things to different people.
Of course it’s different for a player than us fans. For them it is a career.
Well if you look at the Stoke, WBA, Sunderland games etc, could they have gone better? We have games to play, will we always be perfect and win every one? of course not. I also said things could be made worse remember. Football is about decisions, pre planned, or in the moment, how anyone reacts to situations, it is a part of what makes football so great, nothing is black and white.
Yes, I mean it was 15 years ago and I was 15 years younger, but one of the reasons I was so endeared to Woody at the time was that back in 2007 it felt like he was just one of us on the pitch. Probably naive to think so, but that’s also why I now don’t think he is purely here “for the good of the club”, he’s here to rebuild his career and is (understandably) exploiting the good relationship he has with Gibson etc to do so.
I do think it is naive to think a premier league professional thinks about a club more than money to be honest I mean Im a Boro fan through and through but if another offered me more money and a chance to win a trophy then I would move - for the future of the family as much as anything.
Well I don’t know how much more they paid him. Spurs weren’t the club they are now at the time, they were more like Everton. But he had a chance to win an FA Cup here. In fact, we might have won the bloody thing if he’d stayed.
He moved to Spurs who were in Europe in the UEFA Cup for one.
I agree (mostly), Whatever anyone thinks of Woody, only those closely working with him will know what he brings to the table. I think it was not only a bold decision bringing him back, but pairing him with Carrick was too. Woody is clearly well thought of by the hierarchy, and like I say, maybe just maybe he is back out of some sense of honour, who knows
I was happy with Carricks appointment, less so with Woody’s. However, my doubts have been set to one side, a year ago we were all chuffed with Wilder remember, lets see how time progresses, but the signs are clearly very positive and we are all behind all the coaching staff and players at present and enjoying what we are seeing on the pitch.
Agree. I think what he has already done behind the scenes has endeared him to many supporters. Long may it continue.
We were UEFA Cup finalists 18 months earlier.
I heard all sorts of rumours, from the realistic to the far fetched. I’d just be interested to hear his actual side of the story that’s all. He could properly win me over (and I’m sure plenty of others).
